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afccrlain whether this lafl makes a part of 

 <c New Guinea, or is feparatcd from it. To- 

 " wards the end of July 1708, I fhall pafs be- 

 tWecn New Guinea and New Holland, by a 

 " different channel than Endeavour Strait, pro- 

 vided fuch a one cxifl. During the month 

 of September, and a part of October, I fhall 

 ** vifit the Gulf of Carpentaria, and all the 

 <c wefi coafl of New Holland, as far as Van 

 Qi Land ; but yet in fuch a manner, 



*' that it may be poflible for me to get to the 

 tl northward in time to arrive at the Ifle of 

 " France in the beginning of December 1788.'* 



To gratify the impatience of the reader, I 

 fhall here, in a few words, anticipate the rcfult 

 of this voyage. When Admiral D'Entrccafu 



d at the Cape of (i tod Hope, lu- 

 difpatehes from M. Saint-Felix, the French 

 I ..u.mder in Chief on the India fiation, en- 

 clofmg him the depofitions of two French Cap- 

 tains of merchantmen, which flatcd that Cap- 

 Hunter, late of the Syrius frigate, when 

 palling bv the Admiralty Iflands, in his voyage 



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